Actually, this image shows the car with "ghost" flames across Motorsport stripes before we took it all back off AGAIN and re-did it. . . .

Now the flames are so subtle you have to squint to see them in the proper light. . . so I may eventually do something completely different. . . or not.

As for the "old-school" nature of flames. . . that's the point. You whippersnappers don't remember when Von Dutch shocked two worlds---the hot-rod crowd and the sports-car weenies---by showing up at the Oakland Roadster Show (I think) with a 300SL Gullwing. . . with flames. But I do!

Purists faint when they see the Lyle Fisk striping on the rear, too. Heh, heh, heh.

Actually, this image shows the car with "ghost" flames across Motorsport stripes before we took it all back off AGAIN and re-did it. . . .

Now the flames are so subtle you have to squint to see them in the proper light. . . so I may eventually do something completely different. . . or not.

As for the "old-school" nature of flames. . . that's the point. You whippersnappers don't remember when Von Dutch shocked two worlds---the hot-rod crowd and the sports-car weenies---by showing up at the Oakland Roadster Show (I think) with a 300SL Gullwing. . . with flames. But I do!

Purists faint when they see the Lyle Fisk striping on the rear, too. Heh, heh, heh.

You know what else is cool is fire paint jobs. I don't know who he is, I think his name is Mike something. I saw him doing a couple of cars on TV once. It looks like real fire.
He did it on a black background car and it was awesome.

Actually, this image shows the car with "ghost" flames across Motorsport stripes before we took it all back off AGAIN and re-did it. . . .

Now the flames are so subtle you have to squint to see them in the proper light. . . so I may eventually do something completely different. . . or not.

As for the "old-school" nature of flames. . . that's the point. You whippersnappers don't remember when Von Dutch shocked two worlds---the hot-rod crowd and the sports-car weenies---by showing up at the Oakland Roadster Show (I think) with a 300SL Gullwing. . . with flames. But I do!

Purists faint when they see the Lyle Fisk striping on the rear, too. Heh, heh, heh.

Yeah, those M badges definitely make 12% more horsepower; I noticed it right away when I pried the damn things off. Let's see, there was one on each front fender and one on the back, so that's 36% horsepower I threw away! No wonder I can't outrun that #$$%@! 335i!

I guess to get in the proper spirit by putting those infernal slash marks before the M: you know, like ///M. I get so much mail with this lunatic affectation that I have had to write a simple macro to purge the document of such nonsense.

Hmmm: ///M

Satch Carlson

"The first failure of communication is the belief that any is taking place."